Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Comes to Marlow
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
BBCOne show creator of Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-dipping, whiskey-sipping, crossword puzzle author), along with Becks the vicar’s wife, and Susie the dogwalker find themselves in a head-scratching, utterly clever country house, locked-room murder mystery.
Holiday festivities are now January doldrums when Judith gets a call—Sir Peter Bailey, a prominent Marlovian is inviting notable citizens to his house the day before his wedding to celebrate.
Kitten Quest
by LJ Peace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Family friendly action and adventure with a twist of science fiction. The Golden Rule rules in this family friendly tale.
Kitten Quest is about an imaginative girl who finds adventure each summer in the special town of Cliffside. This time around, she must save a sweet kitten from the clutches of an evil bird named Buzz. You will also meet some rather creepy kittens, a very mad professor, and a strange artificial intelligence going by the name of Tinman. And that is just the start. There are monsters afoot.
On top of all that stuff, Crissy has to face a tangle of issues all twisted up within a troubled friendship. Issues like anger, envy, and arrogance. For a girl like Crissy, who loves action, the Golden Rule’s love-in-action foundation will definitely help with all of that…
Remains of Innocence
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.
An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner…
Power Play
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has returned to Washington, her job in jeopardy. Her fiancé, George McCallum, Viscount Lockenby, has died in a car accident, and mysterious rumors begin that she’s responsible begin to surface: she broke off the engagement and, heartbroken, he killed himself. Then someone tries to force her off the M-2 outside London. Again, rumors claim it was a sympathy ploy. When she returns to the United States, she’s nearly killed when a car tries to mow her down while she’s out for a run. No one believes her except FBI Special Agent Davis Sullivan.
C.O.R.P.S.E. Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What happens when the world’s deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out?
Tina Harrington was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E. – until she was killed.
But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.
To survive, the android must learn how to blend in with society, acquire resources, and avoid detection – all while trying to uncover the truth about Tina’s death.
The Family Trip
by Daniel Hurst
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
How can a whole family go missing?
Everybody wants to be like the Conways – beautiful and rich with an enviable lifestyle. Rosalind and Donovan have everything most people dream of. But on a family trip to Ireland – the place where they fell in love – the secrets of their complicated past begin to unravel.
Nothing about the Conways is as it seems. Then Rosalind, Donovan and their eight-year-old son Barnaby all go missing.
Over the Edge
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn’t five years ago.
Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour
by Brett Battles
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another heart-pounding Hollywood-fueled adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series.
Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington’s latest film Storm’s Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Notorious Nutcracker Case
by Nancy Pennick
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s time for the first Christmas market at The Pearl Hotel, but when the festivities take a sinister turn, bestselling author and amateur sleuth, Serena Tate, must help find the assailant before they strike again.
When Serena Tate’s twin daughters propose a unique holiday venture to Nina Takeda, the owner of The Pearl Hotel, Serena is reluctant to give her approval. Her friends, Mia and Lily, support the girls’ plan, so Serena changes her opinion, and The Merry and Bright Christmas Market is underway…
Prime Suspects
by Stephen Penner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-society dinner. Served with a side of murder. When successful real estate entrepreneur Alexandra Pruitt is poisoned at her own retirement dinner, there are many suspects to choose from. Too many.
Alexandra’s long-term boyfriend and the five women Alexandra mentored over the years all have reasons to want her dead. The police quickly pick the most obvious, one of Alexandra’s mentees, Meredith Beauchamp…
Within These Haunted Walls
by Kit Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some doors should never be opened…
The Harper family thought they’d found a fresh start when they moved to a quiet house deep in the Appalachian woods. But the house has a dark past, and its secrets are far from buried. Strange sounds, eerie whispers, and unexplainable events soon shatter their hopes for peace.
As the Harpers struggle to hold onto their sanity, they realize they’ve been drawn into the grasp of something—or someone—that won’t let them go. A presence lingers, its purpose clear: to pull them deeper into the darkness.
Under Her Skin
by Jessica Huntley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She invited a stranger into her home. Now he won’t leave. When her teenage son gets into trouble with some very dangerous people, Natasha knows they need to flee the city. But where can they go?
Out of the blue, she receives an inheritance that seems the answer to her prayers. A distant relative has left her a house, deep in the countryside.
It needs a lot of work, but to Natasha it feels heaven-sent – the perfect place to keep her son safe and soothe her crushing anxiety…
The Author’s Guide to Murder
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour…
Every Breath You Take
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
America’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller.
“If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.”
In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim’s request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush – a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor..
The Footprints of God
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Trinity. The government’s top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity’s worst fears. At the heart of a maelstrom of limitless science and ruthless ambition, Dr. David Tennant,
Project Trinity’s ethicist, harbors a lethal secret: he knows who murdered a fellow scientist. Fleeing for his life alongside psychiatrist Rachel Weiss, the only hope for survival lies in revealing the shocking connection between Trinity’s apocalyptic power and David’s tortured mind. Mankind’s future hangs in the balance—and the price of failure is extinction.
Bellevue
by Robin Cook
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
From the bestselling author and “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine.
Twenty-three-year-old Michael “Mitt” Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he’s always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes…